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October 28, 2006
UK: Shot Muslim Has Child Pornography Charges Dropped
On June 2, 250 police raided a house in Lansdown Road, Forest Gate in east London. They were working on intelligence that a chemical weapon was being kept in the house. Two brothers of Bangladeshi origin were arrested and the house was searched. The elder of the two brothers, postal worker Mohammed Abdul Kahar (right) was shot in the shoulder. No bomb was found inside the house.
The case brought strong reactions from the Muslim community, with claims being made that the two brothers had been the subject of police discrimination. On June 9 radicals from the Islamist group Al Ghurabaa staged a noisy protest outside Forest Gate police station. Al Ghurabaa was banned shortly afterwards but glorifies acts of terrorism such as the 7/7 bombings.
The brothers, Kahar and Abul Koyair, were released within a week of their arrest, and no charges were brought. Representatives from the Muslim Council of Britain claimed that the release of the brothers confirmed their "innocence".
The brothers and their family were placed in a Holiday Inn Hotel while repairs were made to the house. The stay at the luxury hotel cost the Metropolitan Police £30,000 ($56,243) per month. On August 3 Mohammed Abdul Kahar was arrested on child pornography charges. Images of children of a sexual nature had been found to be uploaded onto a computer removed from the house in Lansdown Road.
On the previous day, the Times reported the findings of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), which exonerated the officer who had shot Kahar. The marksman had safety-catch on his Heckler and Koch MP5 carbine released, complying with police guidelines for "high risk entry". The marksman, called B6 in the report, said he collided with two people "approaching from his right at high speed", which made him lose his balance and hit the wall. The report states: "B6 says that he was aware of person(s) pulling at his right arm. He states that he feared that the person(s) were trying to take his weapon, and that he feared for his life. The individual who had pulled his arm had been the Kahar's younger brother, Abul Koyair.
A few days after Kahar's arrest on child pornography charges, the Sun newspaper reported that the two brothers had taunted army personnel at Wellington Barracks, near Buckingham Palace, shouting "We hope you die in Iraq!"
Yesterday, the Daily Mail and the BBC reported that the Crown Prosecution Service announced that no charges would be pressed against Mohammed Abdul Kahar.
44 indecent pictures of children had been found on the hard drive of a Dell computer and on a Nokia 3G phone. The CPS said that 23 of these images had been "embedded' into the computer, and 21 had been deleted from the computer and mobile phone.
Scotland Yard confirmed on Thursday that no charge would be made against the brothers for the abuse hurled at Welsh Guardsmen at Wellington Barracks. A police source said: "We couldn't tell which brother was at fault."
While Kahar seems to have got off scot-free after having child pornography on his computer, there is still an investigation ongoing into an alleged benefits fraud. When police raided the house, a sum of £38,000 cash ($72,125) was discovered. It was claimed that this was rent money from tenants.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 28, 2006 4:05 PM
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